Quote Originally Posted by Brinne View Post
Yes, and I'm very much more of a "literary analysis" type person (as silly and awkward as that is to say in relation to a goofy video game, but hey, every piece of media produced for an audience legitimately is informed by a web of various levels of decisions and influences that can be dissected, too). So we were clearly always destined to meet at dawn with dueling pistols, where only one can leave the subforum alive.

I'm joking, of course. Both forms of approaching the story are perfectly valid and great and can be tons of fun. The problem is resentment brewing when one area feels the other is stepping on their toes or interfering with their (again, both completely valid) versions of "fun" or "interest," which can quickly come across as condescending because they're speaking essentially two completely different languages with two completely different sets of goalposts, usually without recognizing it.

In Moose's case recently, yes, I, like Lunaxia, have a hard time not bristling a bit at the allegation that (because I presume he's speaking more from the toybox model) I must be criticizing the story because the dolls and action figures I like from the box (that I probably like just because they're cool and pretty and less messy than the ugly Sundered) didn't win. No. I'm sorry. That is just flat out, absolutely, incorrect. I won't presume deliberate malice on Moose's part, because again, we are probably speaking from fundamentally different frameworks, but it is incorrect.
I think that's the thing though. For a long time this sub section has been mostly filled with the non literary analysis types. Until EW happened and a bunch of people really did drive out a good chunk of people all because they were bitter and spiteful and wanted to tell those they had disagreed with to go suck it. Or to suck on certain bits of anatomy while shouting "Ha I knew it I knew that she was evil and to top it all off also a complete bitch! How do you feel now those who succkle at thine mommy godds dearest teets? That you now are (expletive) wrong?" And to justify using such vitriol and vileness as I said in my other response all the stuff having been flung at them pertaining to an unrelated topic on othere sites and social media. All to the point where even topics that didn't even mention certain characters or story beats would turn into the gazillionth time that poor horse was turned into glue.